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Archives Assistant on the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive.

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  By Michelle Kaye on July 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard - Templeton Design Archive is a small design attributed to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Glasgow born artist, designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), as we all probably know, is today celebrated internationally as one… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Silver Studio

  By Michelle Kaye on July 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a selection of designs ascribed to the Silver Studio. In 1880 Arthur Silver, a pupil of H. W. Batley and who has been the subject of a previous post, founded… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Agnes Pinder Davis

  By Michelle Kaye on July 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a collection of designs by Agnes Pinder Davis from the 1930s. Agnes Pinder Davis was a well known and well respected artist/designer in the 1930s. She produced countless designs for ceramic… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Picture

  By Michelle Kaye on July 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s gems from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive come from a drawer entitled “Picture”. When I opened the drawer to begin cataloguing what was inside, I must admit that, going by the title of the drawer alone, I didn’t really… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Mary Quant

  By Michelle Kaye on June 17, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a collection of designs by Mary Quant for Templeton Carpets. Mary Quant, (born 11 February 1934), is a famous fashion designer and something of a British fashion icon. Quant was probably at… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Corporate Archive: Staff Records

  By Michelle Kaye on June 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  This week’s Friday Gem is actually several items from the Stoddard Templeton Corporate Archive which bring to life the people behind the carpets. It’s difficult to single out an individual item from the Corporate Archive as the real strength of the corporate records… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Frederick J Mayers

  By Michelle Kaye on May 27, 2011 • ( 6 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a series of designs by Frederick J Mayers. Frederick J Mayers (or Fred, as he was more often known) is probably the most prevalent designer in the Stoddard – Templeton… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Arthur Silver

  By Michelle Kaye on May 13, 2011 • ( 3 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by Arthur Silver from the late 19th century. Arthur Silver is one of the most important designers in British design history. Born in 1853, he spent the 1870s as… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Something Blue

  By Michelle Kaye on April 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

    This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by R. Vernon Leigh. This can be the “something blue” for the Royal wedding today… For more information on the Stoddard – Templeton Collection, click here… Read More ›

• Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Can Can

  By Michelle Kaye on April 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a pattern entitled “Can Can”.  The project is well underway now and we’ve just about finished cataloguing and repackaging the design sketches in the collection. We’re now moving on… Read More ›